Well I am on day 10 with the flu.

ozarkgem · January 29, 2015, 05:48:22 PM

Had a fever for 10 days. Be glad when this is gone. We have had perfect weather for getting some things done outdoors and I have been stuck in my chair. Went to the doc and she said , yep you got the flu. Nothing we can do about it. Tough it out. and that will be 70 bucks thank you.

GAB · January 29, 2015, 07:40:14 PM

Hope you get well soon.
Please do not send it my way when you are done with it.
Gerald

sawguy21 · January 29, 2015, 10:15:52 PM

Kindly keep it to yourself thank you very much. I have been fighting it off and on for weeks, doc doesn't have a solution except fluids, rest, and ride it out. :-\

r.man · January 29, 2015, 10:24:26 PM

In my area a lot of people have been fighting something that has strong symptoms for a week and then comes and goes for another month. At least.

WH_Conley · January 29, 2015, 11:22:17 PM

I feel for you. My wife and I were down for 3 weeks with it.

WmFritz · January 30, 2015, 04:21:03 AM

Quote from: r.man on January 29, 2015, 10:24:26 PM
In my area a lot of people have been fighting something that has strong symptoms for a week and then comes and goes for another month. At least.

I must be in your area.

r.man · January 30, 2015, 11:22:41 AM

From what I am hearing North America is my area this year.

cntryby · February 19, 2015, 03:53:15 PM

Quote from: ozarkgem on January 29, 2015, 05:48:22 PM
Had a fever for 10 days. Be glad when this is gone. We have had perfect weather for getting some things done outdoors and I have been stuck in my chair. Went to the doc and she said , yep you got the flu. Nothing we can do about it. Tough it out. and that will be 70 bucks thank you.

Well, several weeks later but now it's my turn. I look out my window at the whack of logs next to the mill then grab the tissue and head back to the couch. Then I see the ball joints for my truck sitting on the table, choke down the ibuprofen and head back to the couch. Sun shinning through the windows, swallow the sudafed, head back to the couch. Kids home from school, feeding the horses, I never get off the couch.

I'm only at 5 days and it may be worse now than day one. This is miserable!!!

ozarkgem · February 19, 2015, 07:06:55 PM

The worst part was all the stuff I needed to get done and had perfect weather to get it done and too sick to do anything. Hope yours doesn't last a long as mine did.

pineywoods · February 19, 2015, 08:18:21 PM

That Dang stuff is hard to get rid of. I finally kicked it, but only after massive doses of antbiotic for 10 straight days..Now the wife has it. :(

beenthere · February 19, 2015, 08:30:53 PM

So the flu shots don't work?

thecfarm · February 19, 2015, 09:51:21 PM

Good luck to all of you.

Tom the Sawyer · February 20, 2015, 01:10:28 AM

They have to make an educated guess as to which flu strains will be prevalent the following fall in order to gear up production. This year the vaccine was for 4 strains of influenza. Apparently, the flu strain that is causing most of the problems nationwide has been one that was not included in the vaccine. That is the one I caught, in previous years the vaccine has always worked for me.

so il logger · February 20, 2015, 01:23:40 AM

I feel for you guy's. I had the flu bad last year and don't need it this year so Tom the sawyer keep it in kansas, don't let it drift east ;D

Ianab · February 20, 2015, 02:55:49 AM

Quote from: beenthere on February 19, 2015, 08:30:53 PM
So the flu shots don't work?

Flu shots only improve your odds. Less likely to get it, or it may not be as severe. This years vaccine doesn't seem to have the best success rate though. The strain that's gone "viral" isn't one that the vaccine covers properly. Next year might work better, then the year after there is a new variant loose.

BTW, antibiotics wont cure the flu, it's viral. But it's quite common to get a secondary bacterial infection after the flu has knocked you down. That's why you might end up on antibiotics. Not to cure the flu, but to treat the bacterial pneumonia that followed it.

coxy · February 20, 2015, 07:21:57 AM

yes I feel for every one with this crap the guy I was working with has had it for 2 weeks he called the other day and said lets go to work I kindly in not so many words told him ill see him some time next week ;D I don't need to get it

cntryby · February 20, 2015, 07:54:27 AM

My wife brought it home to me, this stupid person she works with comes to work sick and lines up her Robitussin, and other meds on her desk. She thinks it shows how dedicated she is and brags about it. The boss is in another office and only a year or so from retirement so could care less. Same girl comes to work sick a couple of times a year.

I've sneezed and coughed so much the muscles along my rib cage are sore.

clww · February 20, 2015, 07:58:07 AM

Hope you guys get better soon. No fun being down with the flu. :-[

beenthere · February 20, 2015, 11:49:10 AM

cntryby
Next time you or wife are real sick with a cold, make a special trip to visit this lady and hang around her for a spell... coughing, blowing, sneezing... and see what she says... Then break the news to her... gently.

cntryby · February 20, 2015, 12:18:50 PM

The other ladies in the office have talked directly to her and to the boss, she doesn't care and the boss says each person has to decide if they are fit to come to work.

The lady that comes to work sick thinks that if you're gonna get it you'll get it no matter what, her being there doesn't change anything.

She's an idiot. I guess she wouldn't mind going to help over seas with ebola.

Paul_H · February 20, 2015, 12:38:32 PM

As long as there are people there will be spread of the flu. I have had it a couple weeks now but it is part of life.I don't try to avoid those that have it but do try to avoid passing it along.(DanG near impossible)
My youngest daughter gave it to us.She would be feverish and laying in bed,then 15 mins later I'd see her riding her horse in the field. She would come back in and sleep for a few hours and go back out again without complaint. I admire her for that.